To certify architecture schools to meet the demand for advanced students' skillsets in sustainable design and energy efficiency
Energy & Environment
Built Environment Education, Washington
Description
This endeavour outlines a voluntary certification program that recognizes best-in-class architecture schools for meeting the demand for advanced skillsets in sustainable design and energy efficiency. Such a program is expected to place a high priority on low-energy carbon-neutral design education with the goal that innately sustainable designs become second nature for graduating architects at all schools. The rating system has a total of eight categories. Each category consists of credits to provide a mutual basis of flexible set of implements and strategies to accommodate the circumstances of architectural curricula. Specific characteristics of the program communicates various principles pertaining to the evaluation method for certification. Ultimately, the program is supplemented with the forming of the Built Environment Education (BEEnow) that was established in North America and it will eventually expand to include international programs and other educational curricula. The work further seeks to validate through proposals and structured surveys of faculty and students that such a certification program will not place undue burdens on existing curriculums or students and thus would be widely, quickly, and enthusiastically adopted.
